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Bombay Days 14. Spiritual Solace In Madding Crowds of Bombay
Nostalgia Spiritual Solace in Bombay ZGM Instantaneously, on my arrival, in February 1983, I had fallen in love in with metropolitan not only for its glamour and glitter, its pulsating evenings and safe nights but the honesty amidst the hullabaloo of crime and fraudulence. The cab drivers, mostly Muslims from Kutchi Memon community that had come from Gujarat to the metropolitan in the early nineteenth century had earned trust with the commuters for their scrupulousness and integrity. … Read entire article »
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Omar Abdullah’s Berkley Discourse Demolished
PUNCHLINE Hashtag Kashmir Omar Abdullah Berkley Discourse Demolished Z.G. Muhammad The Blue Gate, leading to a magnificent two-story white building with blue windows on the foothills of the Mount Solomon, Srinagar has been central to the post-1947 Kashmir narrative. In 1964, when topmost United Nations official Ralph Bunch arrived in Kashmir, the then premier students’ organization, the Jammu and Kashmir Students and Youth League organized a march to the white building housing the United Nations Military Observers Group. Lieutenant … Read entire article »
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Bombay 12. Film Nagari to Dawat o Tabligh and Islah
Nostalgia Bandra Bandstand By ZGM Someone to my delight sent an anonymous poem ‘Bandra Meri Jann’ to me on WhatsApp. The amateurish poem took me on a trek to the Carter Road, the Linking Road, the Pali Hill and Bandstand of the city of dreams. It made me relish the soothing breeze blowing along the Carter Road, relive the experiences of the pageant of buzzing street Bazars, high profile designer boutiques, gaudy and stylish shoes and trendy fashion of the Linking Road, and glamour, romances and freedom of the Bandstand. Nonetheless, the poem also took me on an odyssey to the teenage days- full of fancies, fantasies, and dreams when some of my friends sitting on Hassan Khar’s shopfront daydreamed about making it to the film world. Truly, those were simple nevertheless beautiful days. The … Read entire article »
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Bombay 12. From Film Nagari to ‘DAWAT O TABLIGH & ISLAH.’
Nostalgia Bandra Bandstand By ZGM Someone to my delight sent an anonymous poem ‘Bandra Meri Jann’ to me on WhatsApp. The amateurish poem took me on a trek to the Carter Road, the Linking Road, the Pali Hill and Bandstand of the city of dreams. It made me relish the soothing breeze blowing along the Carter Road, relive the experiences of the pageant of buzzing street Bazars, high profile designer boutiques, gaudy and stylish shoes and trendy fashion of … Read entire article »
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Respond To Clarion Call Retreat Pellet Guns
PUNCHLINE Haunting ‘Dead Eyes’ By Z.G. Muhammad On 15 March 1929, Sir Albino Banerjee, a Bengali Christen, who for two years had been Foreign and Political Minister of Maharaja Hari Singh had observed that the rulers had been treating “Mohammadan population” worst than “cattle.” Ninety years later, when the idea of governance in the world has undergone a sea change, and colonialism has crashed the mindset of those in the corridors of “hegemonic authority” in the state has … Read entire article »
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Bombay Days 11 : Morarji Desai Taught Kashmir’s Top Man Punctuality
Nostalgia Morarji Desai and My HMT Watch ZGM Someone has said it, and said it beautifully ‘everybody owns a piece of Marine Drive’; it greets everyone with a smile, asks none; if he is a puritan or sinner, a maharaja or mendicant. Like millions of others, whose stories are preserved in its depth, I too have my share of stories about this great seashore, once known Kennedy sea face. In my childhood, much before having visited … Read entire article »
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Kashmir’s- Kowtowing “Accession-Politicians”
PUNCHLINE It Takes Courage: Standing for truth is all that matters By Z. G. Muhammad Sometimes, some news stories published on the inner pages because of their imminent political fallout are more significant than those that for their immediate news value make the lead stories. On Saturday, a four column news story published on page seven of the newspaper caught my attention more than the two BJP ministers resigning at the insistence of the party high command. It was … Read entire article »
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